Contents
About This Volume, Sharon Lynette Jonesvii
Career, Life, and Influence
On Zora Neale Hurston: Fictionalizing Funerals in Zora Neale
Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Sharon Lynette Jones3
Biography of Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Seymour-Smith and
Andrew C. Kimmens18
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Moving Away from the Reactionary: Regional Mobility in Zora Neale
Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee, Erin H. Wedehase29
Janie in the Sun: Invoking Hurston’s Caribbean Travels in
Tell My Horse, Tiffany Boyd Adams45
Mrs. Turpin and Mrs. Turner: Foolish Pride in Flannery O’Connor’s
“Revelation” and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were
Watching God, Robert C. Evans64
Race and Patronage: Critical Receptions of Hurston’s Relationship
with Charlotte Osgood Mason, Janine Bradbury82
CRITICAL READINGS
The Gender Mountain: The Architecture of Male-Female Relationships
in Hurston’s Short Fiction, Christopher Allen Varlack101
“The Country in the Woman”: Three Forgotten Fictions by Zora Neale
Hurston, Christine M. Rudisel123
African Elements in the Folktales of Zora Neale Hurston’s
Mules and Men, Babacar M’Baye144
Dance as a “Feather-Bed Resistance” in Zora Neale Hurston’s
Mules and Men, Ondra Krouse Dismukes169
“Is It Not a Riot in All That [S]he Doeth?”: Embracing Performativity
in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road, Katharine Torrey189
Conservative or Visionary: The Journalistic Career of Zora
Neale Hurston, Shelby Crosby209
Signifyin(g) Black and White Speech in Zora Neale Hurston’s
Seraph on the Suwanee, Stephanie Li229
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Seraph on the Suwanee: Hurston’s “White Novel,” Jervette R. Ward250
Zora Neale Hurston as Womanist, Cheryl R. Hopson270
Adaptations of Hurston’s Writings for Children and Hurston in
Historical Novels for Young Readers, Amy Cummins284
“Another Instance of Our Thoughts Clicking”: Artistic Passion in
Zora Neale Hurston’s Letters to Langston Hughes, Katherine Cottle307
RESOURCES
Chronology of Zora Neale Hurston’s Life
333
Works by Zora Neale Hurston 337
Bibliography341
About the Editor
343
Contributors345
Index349
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Critical Insights